[Advaita-l] What is the difference between Maya and avidhya ?T

[Ravi Kiran]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> praNAms
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> Hare Krishna
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> Is jnAnAbhAva another term for avidyA or  ajnAna or agrahana ( tattva
> agrahana) ? Or does it mean something else ?
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> Ø   As you know ( I think) one of the lakshaNa-s of avidyA is jnAnAbhAva
> or agrahaNa apart from this there are two more i.e. anyathAgrahaNa and
> saMshaya.
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> You may want to refer some discussion on this term (jnAnAbhAva) from
> Venkatraghavanji / PraveenJi ?
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> Ø     For your kind information I have stopped discussing vedAnta with
> some prabhuji-s in  this list after taking their due permission.  Yes, with
> all due reverence I do read their mails and clarification on somany
> vedAntic topics but due to my limited intelligence and exposure sometimes
> it goes beyond my reach of understanding.  BTW prabhuji, what sri
> Venkatraghavan prabhuji shared with regard to jnAnAbhAva??  Please direct
> me to his relevant mail.
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> still to get a clear understanding of mUlAvidyA..
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> Ø   In the vyAkhyAna on ‘paNchapAdika-vivaraNa’ you will get more details
> about mUlAvidyA.  In short, in Atma Chaitanya there exists an anAdi
> anirvachaneeya avidyA.  And because of the reason that it is dependent upon
> anAdi chaitanyasattA it is ‘anAdi’, because of the reason it is neither sat
> not asat it is anirvachaneeya.  Synonyms of this avidyA nAma rUpa,
> avyAkruta, mAya, prakruti, AgrahaNa, avyakta, tamas, kAraNa, laya, Shakti,
> mahAsupti etc. etc. And this avidyA does not mean an abhAva of the nature
> of not knowing, nor it is of the nature of knowing wrongly and is it its
> saMskAra.  This avidyA is jnana virOdhi and bhAvarUpa (of a substantive
> nature).  This is the cause of all samsara, it exists uniformly in all the
> three states (avasthA-s), while in jAgrat and svapna it is the cause
> (upAdAna) for the adhyAsa and in sushupti it is in beeja rUpa (kAraNa).
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This raises many questions as before. Since, it is accepted that mUlAvidyA
is traikAlika bAdhita through knowledge and there is no more efforts
(samAdhi or other mano nAsha/vAsana ksaya etc) needed to destroy it, after
arising of knowledge, I am dropping this thread here ..

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> For more details you can refer any  vivaraNa school vyAkhyAna prabhuji.  I
> did not want to mention any school name here but since you asked more
> details on mUlAvidyA I have to mention the name of this school.  No offence
> intended whatsoever to the Advaita Acharya-s from this school of thought.
> I am just sharing the information.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
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> bhaskar
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